Label Text: Best known for images of soup cans and Hollywood icons, Andy Warhol frequently accepted portrait commissions and created portraits of his friends and colleagues. This portrait of fellow artist Paul Jenkins marks a sort of collaboration between artists possessing starkly contrasting attitudes about art. The paragon of the Pop Art movement, Warhol enthusiastically embraced commercial imagery, culture, and techniques, whereas Jenkins created gestural, spiritually infused abstract paintings. As was his habit, Warhol based his portrait of the sage-like painter on a Polaroid photograph. He enlarged this likeness through a silkscreen process and animated the image by painting large gestural strokes that mimic Jenkins’s style. Yet Warhol’s rather pastel palette is more in keeping with his own aesthetic sensibilities.
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